I am in love with this series, and I'm not sure who is more adorable, the man or the cat. But I adore that they are healing each other. This is just a high-reward, low-risk book. It's nothing but good vibes, good feelings, and an adorable cat. I'm going to sprinkle this series in throughout the year between reads. Because honestly, this was the best book to crawl out of my reading slump from December!
This started out interesting: an artist moved into a supposedly haunted house. Turns out the house is sort of haunted, and Ro makes friends with it. After that point, it kind of went downhill for me. There are some time skips to keep the graphic novel moving, but we lose the fact that the Ro and this thing in the house are doing more than bonding. Because all of a sudden they are in this weird siutationship, then it wants to keep her in the house. We never hear what happened to the other owners/renters of the house. This thing is just there with all its eyes. I don't know. This just fell a big flat for me, which is a disappointment because I usually really like Skottie Young's stories. I will say Jorge Corona's art didn't disappoint, and I spent a lot of time trying to find the monster in the darker panels. I just wish we'd been given a bit more.
This was an absolute delight! Katie Spalding had to have a lot of fun putting this book together. While her writing is very informed, it's also a lot of fun, and she's fully engaged through the whole book. She drops her own thoughts and opinions here and there. Plus a few gold one-liners that had me laughing out loud. As a whole, this book is wild and definitely filled with weirdness. I listened to the audiobook version of this, and it felt like the narrator had a lot of fun reading it as well. This was a delight from start to finish. It started as the book I was listening to at work, but it became so hard to pause that I started listening while doing house chores. Super fun read.
HAPPY READING!!
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